Why blog comments are useless Jul09 '07
Why Daring Fireball is comment free.
Translation: feedback content is typically useless and irrelevant, degrading the quality, usability, and aesthetics of the site.
This is something I've also been considering for my personal blogs. Comments are not only a maintenance headache, but they often don't add any value. If I want to see random scribblings from random people (which I do), I'll look at Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, etc.
This is not to say that all comments are useless. They're just useless from the blog author's perspective.
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